The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has recently tested two innovative tools designed to enhance wildfire detection and response. These tools, part of NOAA's Next Generation Fire System (NGFS), were evaluated during a week-long series of simulations at the new Fire Weather Testbed in Boulder, Colorado. The goal: to accelerate and improve the accuracy of wildfire detection and warning capabilities across the United States.
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Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) technologies are now ubiquitous in everyday life: they are incorporated in electronic devices and are used by the public, surveyors, and geoscientists on a regular basis. In developing countries in particular, GNSS applications offer cost-effective solutions that make it possible to foster economic and social development without neglecting the need to preserve the environment, thus promoting sustainable development.
Cartosat-3 satellite is a third generation agile advanced satellite having high resolution imaging capability. Cartosat-3 will address the increased user’s demands for large scale urban planning, rural resource and infrastructure development, coastal land use and land cover etc.
Cartosat-2 is an advanced remote sensing satellite with a single panchromatic camera (PAN) capable of providing scene-specific spot imageries for cartographic applications. The camera is designed to provide imageries with better than one meter spatial resolution and a swath of 10 km. The satellite will have high agility with capability to steer along and across the track up to + 45 degrees. It will be placed in a sun-synchronous polar orbit at an altitude of 630 km. It will have a revisit period of four days.
